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Subject: Re: Will the real Pro Deo please stand up?

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 09:15:49 08/19/04

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On August 19, 2004 at 09:37:41, Albert Silver wrote:

>This is really getting tiresome. I ran a series of games between Pro Deo S&D and
>Ruffian 1.05 in Arena. Pro Deo is installed as a UCI engine which shouldn't be
>an issue. Arena doesn't freeze or anything so that's not the problem. The
>problem is that the analysis between Pro Deo running under Arena and Fritz,
>using the exact same files (personality, etc) produces different results. As a
>tie-breaker, I took a look at Chess Partner 5.3 and it produced different
>analysis, not to mention different depths and times. To make things even harder
>to udnerstand, at least for me, when I change the hash sizes, I not only get
>different times to reach a certain depth (expected), I get different main lines
>adn evaluations (not expected). Note in particular the analysis at ply depth
>11-13.

You must have done something wrong anyway, I ran a test-position with CP, Fritz
and Rebel (DOS) and they all produced the same number of nodes, as it should.

I wasn't able to change a personality under Arena so I gave up here. I don't
recommend Arena anyway.

Bottom line -> everything okay.

My best,

Ed



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